Fisheye Camera Lens

A fisheye camera lens is a variant of the wide angle lens that produces a distorted appearance of the image on the film. The photograph when developed has a convex appearance to it, almost as if it is bulging in the center of the image. The name for the lens is pretty self-explanatory and comes from the fact that the lens produces the same image as the way a fish's eye works. The lens was first mass produced by Nikon in the early 1970's, but before that was often used to shoot landscapes that were able to show the curvature of the Earth in the image. There are 2 types of fisheye lenses, the more commonly used full frame which covers the entire 35mm film frame, and the lesser used circular lens which produces an image inscribed within a circle on the film. The camera lens has progressed massively since it's inception, when it was just used for panoramic landscapes. The lens is now used in a variety of photography, include in Imax theatres, planetariums, art, skateboarding photography, among many other variants as well.

 an example of the full frame fisheye

an example of the circular frame fisheye

- Cody Barz